Life-Sized Lego Hot Rod Runs on Air (W/Video)

If you're anything like us, you spent much of your childhood tinkering with Legos, stretching your imagination to build Lego cars, trucks, and planes. And if you're like us, we're willing to bet that none of your Lego creations actually worked outside of your imagination. This life-sized Lego car actually works, and is reportedly capable of speeds up to 18 mph.This completely functional life-sized Lego car started off with a tweet from Australian entrepreneur Steve Sammartino, "Anyone interested in investing $500-$1000 in a project which is awesome & a world first tweet me. Need about 20 participants... #startup." Pretty soon thereafter, he and Romanian techie Raul Oaida had their seed money.Their project was to build an air-powered Lego car built from standard Lego parts. Aside from its wheels and a few load-bearing bits, everything -- even its four 256-piston radial engines -- was built from Legos. Assembled in Romania using more than 500,000 Legos, the Lego hot rod was then shipped to Australia for testing.The end result is a truly fantastic creation. You don't want to miss the Lego hot rod in action in the video below.Source: Super Awesome Micro Project